[Mutual healing + reunion after years apart + older woman/younger man + both sexually inexperienced]
(Independent, sensitive career woman × devoted, patient, well-behaved puppy)
When Chen Lili was thirteen, she told Huo Yin, “Huo Yin, don’t cry. If anyone picks on you from now on, come find me. I’ll beat them up for you!”
At eighteen, Chen Lili, furious and overwhelmed, told Huo Yin, “Huo Yin! Let’s never contact each other again. Let’s pretend we don’t know each other.”
One of Chen Lili’s words kept him alive. The other nearly made it impossible for him to go on.
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Later, Chen Lili proposed to him. At their private proposal ceremony, with just the two of them there, she read from her phone’s memo app and earnestly told him her feelings, word by word.
But in the end, she wrapped it up in just a few words.
That night, Huo Yin opened the encrypted memo she had shared with him. It turned out to contain just one sentence: Huo Yin, I missed you the whole time we were apart, even though I never reached out. Luckily, you’re by my side now.
